Why not? How does he know whether he needs an update if he never looks at the full list of available updates? How do you decide whether an update is necessary if you want all security fixes, given that the GLSA project falls behind sometimes?

DawgG wrote:

if you don't need it:

Code:

USE="-acl -upcall" emerge -pv1 net-fs/cifs-utils

should do it.

Although this is fine for testing, it should never be advocated for installing a package, since the environment USE flag is not recorded, so the next rebuild will switch back to the saved values.